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Chico Mendes, president of the Rural Workers’ Trade Union of Xapuri in the western Amazon and member of the National Council of Rubber Tappers, was widely known for his work in defence of the environment....
A video-based teaching pack introducing human rights using clips from films and television programmes, made to meet the growing concern about human rights amongst young people. There are separate sections on...
Discusses the impact of Islamisation on women in Pakistan, particularly laws relating to extra-marital sex which is now a crime against the state, punishable by stoning to death. Women in prison, or out on...
A picture of the way in which trade unionists’ rights are abused all over the world. Filmed in seven countries on 1 May 1987, it illustrates how local Amnesty International groups and trade unions share a...
Examines the case of Herbert Marin, a human rights worker who ‘disappeared’ in 1986, and gives details of the problems of ‘disappearences’ and extra-judicial executions taking place in Colombia....
Looks at the death penalty in the USA and describes the work of Marie Deans, who secures the help of attorneys to argue for those on death row, usually with positive results. Includes interviews with inmates...
Describes the imprisonment and eventual release of a family of political prisoners in Argentina. During his eight years of imprisonment, Juan Carlos’ morale was sustained by the knowledge that groups such...
Told through the testimony of one family in Chile, five members of which ‘disappeared’ following their arrest in Isla de Maipo in 1973, the film records their experiences and explains how members of...
The National Council for Civil Liberties exists to help people where individual or collective liberties are threatened. Several cases are shown, and the philosophy and methods of the organisation are discussed.
If a policeman stops an individual in the street and asks to search him, can he refuse? And if the policeman wants to take him to the station, must he go?
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